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To: DouglasKC
Enlighten me then. If life didn't come from non-life, than where did it come from?

What exactly do you mean by non-life? Are the atoms comprising your body non-life?

368 posted on 08/16/2005 6:49:31 PM PDT by js1138 (Science has it all: the fun of being still, paying attention, writing down numbers...)
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To: js1138
Enlighten me then. If life didn't come from non-life, than where did it come from? What exactly do you mean by non-life? Are the atoms comprising your body non-life?

Life springs from one source: God. The eternal nature of God is the only true life there is. The physical world is matter on its way to death. As for life in the physical, I'll stick with the standard biological definition from Wikipedia:

In biology, a lifeform has traditionally been considered to be a member of a population whose members can exhibit all the following phenomena at least once during their existence:
Growth - Metabolism, consuming, transforming and storing energy/mass; growing by absorbing and reorganizing mass; excreting waste
Motion, either moving itself, or having internal motion Reproduction, the ability to create entities that are similar to, yet seperate from, itself
Response to stimuli - the ability to measure properties of its surrounding environment, and act upon certain conditions.

379 posted on 08/16/2005 7:10:40 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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What exactly do you mean by non-life?

Could it be the opposite of what biology textbooks call "life?"

396 posted on 08/16/2005 7:50:04 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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